finetune artist: Jimmy Smith

Though he was a late bloomer (he didn't start playing organ until age 28), Jimmy Smith is the single most influential figure in the history of jazz organ. He was the pioneering force in making the organ a lead instrument. And while he had bebop chops aplenty, his blues/R&B influences and preference for space over clutter also made him an icon of the subsequent acid jazz movement. Though his heyday was in the 1960s, the larger-than-life organist blazed ahead for decades afterward, until his death in February 2005.

Listen to Jimmy Smith at Finetune.

(2008) Live At Club Baby Grand V. 1 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) ( 2007 Digital Remaster)
(2008) Live At Club Baby Grand V. 2 (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) ( 2007 Digital Remaster)
(2008) Keep On Comin'
(2008) Off The Top
(2008) Jimmy Smith Plays Fats Waller (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2008) Hobo Flats
(2008) The Definitive Collection
(2008) Live At The Village Gate
(2007) Midnight Special (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2007) Straight Life
(2007) Finest In Jazz
(2007) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
(2007) Back At The Chicken Shack (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2007) All The Way Live
(2006) Milestone Profiles: Jimmy Smith
(2006) Fourmost
(2006) Fourmost Return
(2006) Sum Serious Blues
(2006) Prime Time
(2006) Music For Lovers
(2006) Softly As A Summer Breeze
(2005) Respect
(2005) Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 3
(2005) The Sound Of Jimmy Smith
(2005) Christmas '64
(2005) The Very Best
(2005) Stay Loose
(2005) Livin' It Up!
(2005) Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
(2004) Jimmy Smith-Retrospective
(2004) Home Cookin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2004) The Boss
(2004) Prayer Meetin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2004) The Sermon (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2004) Rockin' The Boat (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2004) Best Of Jimmy Smith (The Blue Note Years)
(2004) Standards
(2004) Open House/Plain Talk
(2004) Prayer Meetin'
(2004) Crazy Baby
(2004) Midnight Special
(2002) Cool Blues (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(2001) Dot Com Blues
(2000) Root Down
(2000) Jimmy Smith: Finest Hour
(2000) Organ Grinder Swing
(2000) House Party (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(1999) Groovin' At Small's Paradise (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
(1999) Peter & The Wolf
(1999) Ultimate Jimmy Smith
(1998) The Cat
(1998) Any Number Can Win
(1997) Got My Mojo Workin'/Hoochie Cooche Man
(1997) Bashin
(1996) Angel Eyes
(1996) Home Cookin'
(1996) Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz
(1995) Walk On The Wild Side: Best Of The Verve Years
(1995) Damn!
(1994) Jazz 'Round Midnight
(1994) Jazz Masters 29: Jimmy Smith
(1992) Christmas Cookin'
(1988) Back At The Chicken Shack

The Cat
Got My Mojo Workin'
Organ Grinder's Swing
Root Down And Get It
The Sermon (1999 Digital Remaster)